I wrote in my zine that I have a love/hate relationship with the New York Public Library (NYPL). A friend (who works there) asked my why, which I did, on Facebook. But I thought the discussion might be worthy of exposure beyond Facebook's walls.
Library of Congress Subject Heading weekly lists, weeks 48-50
Let me preface this installment of my subject heading analysis series by saying that I am very irritated that lcsh.info/search is gone, not to mention inconvenienced!
Includes subject headings under the categories:
You mean there weren't already SHs for these?
The end is nigh
What's hotter than a dozen cross references?
Good one, LC!
Brought to you by the gay cataloging mafia
From the Department of Scrupulous Attention to Detail
From the Department of Something for Everyone
Everything Urban, but URBAN FICTION
Tori Spelling bio.
Not bad, actu'ly, given
my expectations.
So yeah, this is an autobiography by a 35-year-old TV star, but it knows it. Spelling doesn't pretend she didn't grow up rich or that she got her acting breaks on her own. She cops to her part of the responsibility for her troubled relationship with her mother and her divorce from her first husband. Maybe I'm a sucker, but I more or less bought it. There's not as much behind the scenes dirt about Beverly Hills 90210 and whatnot as I'm sure some readers will be after, but she hints at things so that you get an idea.
Cousins, babies, war.
The Hand Family women--
Whose husband will die?
Sci-fi girl geek learns
to be herself, and how to
be a friend, but trig...
The table of contents reveals some favorites from the past: Julia Alvarez, James McBride, Lisa See, and Danzy Senna.
I was looking for a subject heading for VIRGINS. There isn't a heading I can find for people who haven't had sex. There is, however, one for VIRGINITY, which has some interesting cross references:
BT SEXUAL ABSTINENCE
NT DEFLORATION
NT JUS PRIMAE NOCTIS
In which I plea for the establishment of Library of Congress Subject Headings for URBAN FICTION (Sandy Berman's suggestion, actually) and various forms of PRIVILEGE.
Following are book recommendations for my friend Siu Loong, a voracious reader who just turned 8.
I got the disappointing news that due to budget cuts and whatever all is going on at Library Journal since Reed Elsevier decided not to sell the magazine, the Zine Reviews column will be online only, beginning in 2009.